Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/8] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add "eth-mac" and "rmon" counter group support

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 11:33:38PM +0100, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
> The majority of the changes (2/8) are about refactoring the existing
> ethtool statistics support to make it possible to read individual
> counters, rather than the whole set.
> 
> 4/8 tries to collect all information about a stat in a single place
> using a mapper macro, which is then used to generate the original list
> of stats, along with a matching enum. checkpatch is less than amused
> with this construct, but prior art exists (__BPF_FUNC_MAPPER in
> include/uapi/linux/bpf.h, for example).
> 
> To support the histogram counters from the "rmon" group, we have to
> change mv88e6xxx's configuration of them. Instead of counting rx and
> tx, we restrict them to rx-only. 6/8 has the details.
> 
> With that in place, adding the actual counter groups is pretty
> straight forward (5,7/8).
> 
> Tie it all together with a selftest (8/8).

I plan to test and review this. Please do not merge it yet.